Tokamak height30 m
120Screwdriver lengths
1Church steeple height
25Coffee table lengths
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ITER Tokamak
The machine designed to bottle a star/Engineering Marvels
ITER is an experimental fusion reactor being built in southern France by a consortium of 35 nations. The tokamak chamber will contain plasma heated to 150 million degrees Celsius, ten times hotter than the core of the Sun. It is designed to produce 500 MW of fusion power from 50 MW of input heating. When completed, it will be the largest magnetic confinement fusion device ever built.
Measurements
Tokamak diameter30 m
1,154Guitar picks
369 quintillionthsSirius distances
Tokamak mass23 million kg
33,824Dairy cows
1.9 trillionHousefly weights
23,000 tonnes
Plasma temperature150 million K
524,476Wine cellars
450,450Hot cocoa cups
6,000Plasma torch arcs
150 million degrees C
Target fusion power output500 million W
1 millionGaming PCs
3,333Car engines
500 millionthsLightning strikes
500 MW
Input heating power50 million W
263 millionthsSaturn V first stages
2.5 millionHuman brains
333Car engines
50 MW